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Snorting a Forest the Size of N.H. Up Your Nose
thedailygreen.com — After the Amazon, the Mayan Biosphere Reserve is the largest intact tropical rain forest in the Americas. At 6 million acres, the Mayan Biosphere Reserve covers nearly 20% of Guatemala and is bigger than New Hampshire. And it's going up in smoke. And up the nose.
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- reflex768, on 04/16/2008, -0/+8That's an incredibly depressing sat image in that article.
- Bukowsky, on 04/16/2008, -0/+4What a shame. So many animals just lost their habitat, because they want to grow plant used to manufacture Cocaine...
- Burento, on 04/17/2008, -0/+6Seriously.. i had to actually double take on this one. They would burn that much land for coca
- slvrbullet87, on 04/17/2008, -0/+1Some people will do anything for a line
- socialpyramid, on 04/17/2008, -0/+1especially Bog Saget!
- slvrbullet87, on 04/17/2008, -0/+1Some people will do anything for a line
- donjacko, on 04/17/2008, -1/+3there goes a resource so much more important than oil.....
- socialpyramid, on 04/17/2008, -1/+4sniff sniff
- MajorJJH, on 04/17/2008, -0/+1Oh for the love of all that is green and holy... why is humanities natural instinct to burn and chop and... *sigh* never mind, give me a whiff of that good stuff...
- wynja, on 04/17/2008, -0/+1God bless the CIA. May the coke run pure and white to fund their foreign wars.
- benholmes, on 04/20/2008, -0/+1Makes me wonder how soon we're going to be seeing CIA backed planes crashing while leaving Guatemala with their cargo.
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